Education

Providence’s Classical High School and East Greenwich High School made Newsweek Magazine’s annual list of the top 1,000 high schools in the country. May 21

Everyone wants American-made, says Raymond W. Fogarty, director of the John H. Chafee Center for International Business at Bryant University, and that’s a reason to pay attention to what he calls a manufacturing renaissance, despite a widely held sentiment that sector has all but disappeared. May 19

Of all the changes happening in the health care sector today – federal reform efforts, outcome-based medicine, etc. – perhaps the change with the potential to be most disruptive to Rhode Island is the purchase of Landmark Medical Center by for-profit Steward Health Care, a transaction it hopes to duplicate with other community hospitals soon. May 19

The New England Institute of Technology is now offering a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering technology, the school announced Thursday. May 18

RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc. has announced the expansion of its student lending business to include private student loans to college students in the continental United States. May 16

Richard R. Spies, who, as executive vice president for planning at Brown University, has been side-by-side with President Ruth Simmons in her vision for expansion, is leaving the university this December. May 15

The Bristol Community College Academic Center for Entrepreneurship has named the annual winners of their entrepreneurship competition. May 15

The Providence-New Bedford-Fall River area ranks 48th out of 100 for the percentage of college-educated young adults in the metro area, according to an On Numbers analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. May 14

PROVIDENCE – The Pleasant View Elementary School has received a $470,000 Rhode Island Innovation Powered by Technology Model School Grant. May 12

PROVIDENCE – Veazie Street Elementary Principal Susan Chin was named Rhode Island’s Elementary Principal of the Year on April 26 when Mayor Angel Taveras and Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee made a surprise visit to the school. May 12